Reckoning 8

Reckoning 8, edited by Knar Gavin and Waverly SM, engages with the essential toil, struggle, pain, triumph, loss, and persistence of resisting the patriarchofascist, corporate-captured extractive state. May these words and images grant us solace and strength for another year.

Contents

Art

Breaking Points - Martins Deepsunday in atlanta - Kelsey DayPearls of Wisdom - Kirsty GreenwoodShelton Johnson Calls - Amuri Morris

Poetry

sunday in atlanta - Kelsey DayTisha b''Av - Esther Alter Wade - Olumide Manuel A Chanterelle Empress & Porcini Prince at the Precipice of the World - Chanlee LuuRiis Beach - Dina Abdulhadi Climate Injustice - Lovely RajuClimate Crisis in My (Un)known Dream - Lovely RajuCivil Disobedients - Joanna Streetly50% off Venus Fly Traps - Kelsey Dayfear of pipes and shallow water - William O. BalmerData, Land, Scape - Koby OmanskyThat Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ''Death'' - Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe

Fiction

The Battle for Florida - David HollowayIn the Year 2067 I Will Be 95 Years Old - Sage TyrtleStill Life - James CatoA Shape that Has No Name - Monica WendelThe Donor - Bernie Jean SchiebelingA Move to a New Country - Dan MusgraveWhere the Water Came From - Jeff HewittWithin the Seed Lives the Fruit - Leah AndelsmithOne with the Ground - Guillermo G. MendozaUna con el suelo - Guillermo G. MendozaIt''s in the Blood - Susan Kaye QuinnFixing the System in Tilt Town - Kat MurrayThe Last Great Repair Tech of the American Midwest - Ellis Nye

Nonfiction

Editor''s Note - Waverly SMEditor''s Note - Knar GavinThe X That Means Both Death and Hope - Ariadne Starling